Raspberry Pi "original" Status update
Hi all, I just wanted to give a short update on the status of the original raspberry pi support. In order to quickly test some things with the help of custom build OBS packages, I today decided to give openSUSE on the old raspi 1 finally a chance again. Some years ago, I decided to no longer pursue this route, because things were working not well (vc4 libraries not working on openSUSE, random MAC address on every boot etc) *and* additionally, raspbian, by switching to systemd and apt to libsolv actually removed the pain points of old-fashioned debian installations ;-) Now today, I was pleasantly surprised, that everything I needed just worked. Original MAC address of the raspi, so no random DHCP address: CHECK. Editing the GRUB menu with an usb-keyboard: CHECK. OK, I no longer try to use an old raspi for anything multimedia, so I did not test that, but the things that people nowadays want to use these old boards for seem to work well. Thanks for that! Great work! I also found a small kernel bug (boo#1182827), but this looks like it's merely cosmetic and I actually might try fixing that by myself. Best regards, and have a lot of fun... seife -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman
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Stefan Seyfried